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tekVizion Announces Opening
of Centerfield Solution Center and Executive Briefing Center at
its Headquarters in Telecom Corridor
Solution Center Demonstrates Real-World, Multi-Vendor
Solutions Designed Specifically for Service Providers, ISVs
RICHARDSON, TX – February 2, 2004 – tekVizion™
PVS, Inc. today announced the official opening of its Centerfield
Solution CenterSM and Executive Briefing Center (EBC)
in the company’s corporate headquarters in Richardson, Texas.
Together, the facilities are designed to demonstrate examples
of real-world convergent solutions that are designed specifically
for service providers. The solutions include both pre-integrated
and custom legacy and next generation products and technologies
from a broad cross-section of established and start-up vendors.
The tekVizion Centerfield Solution Center is comprised of legacy,
next generation, and converged products and applications. At the
heart of the Centerfield Solution Center is a working lab which
is equipped with a wide range of legacy and next generation equipment
including off-the-shelf and custom test tools, legacy circuit
switches, media gateways, media servers, signaling gateways, Voice
over IP (VoIP) and legacy PBXs, softswitches, applications servers
and integrated service delivery platforms. With full connectivity
to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and IP networks,
the lab can demonstrate how solutions would operate in real-world
environments.
The EBC provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art meeting and
demonstration environment. It incorporates professional equipment
and technology in its four demonstration pods, including plasma
screens, mobile computers, VoIP phones, and wireless handsets.
This equipment is critical in the creation of realistic scenarios
designed to demonstrate the use and value of different solutions.
The EBC enables tekVizion to simulate application environments
like corporate or home offices, travel scenarios, and social settings
using a combination of the scenario demonstration pods and high-end
audio-visual technology.
The ability to see real-world solutions offers many advantages
to customers and partners such as:
- Giving network operators, service providers and other interested
parties a single place to see multiple real-world solutions;
- Creating an environment for the inspiration of new services
and customized applications;
- Fostering communication with product vendors on new product
requirements and improvements;
- Accelerating development of service roadmaps and accompanying
business cases; and
- Providing a turn-key venue for product prototyping and demonstrations.
“tekVizion’s center is opening at an opportune time:
standards are maturing, the economy is strengthening, and service
providers are demanding new service solutions to drive revenue
growth. A facility run by an experienced, unbiased, trusted partner
allows service providers, ISVs and equipment vendors to predict
and demonstrate how these new solutions will perform in a real-world
environment, while leveraging the cost advantages of a shared
facility,” said Rob Rich, executive vice president, The
Yankee Group, a leading international consultancy.
tekVizion takes a unique approach to addressing the growing need
for experienced, unbiased professional services that can provide
the consulting, testing and integration expertise required to
build carrier-class solutions which merge legacy and emerging
technologies. The company’s expertise reflects unparalleled
experience in development of multi-vendor solutions, as well as
extensive experience with interoperability testing and alliances.
With the Centerfield Solution Center, tekVizion is expanding on
these past experiences and leveraging the company’s product-agnostic
approach to help service providers understand how technical solutions
translate into actual services meeting their business requirements.
Further, tekVizion’s consulting services group also works
with customers to build the actual business cases required to
evaluate and justify new service deployments.
“While the growing adoption of VoIP technologies has created
a tremendous opportunity for the creation of innovative new IP-based
services, today’s reality is that service providers still
receive the vast majority of their revenues from traditional voice
services based on legacy technologies. tekVizion has a unique
body of expertise that comprises both next generation, packet-based
technologies and solutions as well as traditional, legacy ones,”
said Terri Griffin, president of tekVizion. “With the EBC
and the Solutions Center, we can now demonstrate new, hybrid solutions
in real-world deployment scenarios, which is the best way to help
service providers envision how such solutions can enhance their
bottom lines.”
Griffin added that tekVizion’s success over the past two
years has given the company the financial resources and expertise
required to develop these facilities so that they can share them
with customers and partners.
Both facilities were officially open as of January 19, 2004.
The Centerfield Solution Center has been operational since 2003.
Pictures and more information on the centers can be found on tekVizion’s
website (www.tekvizion.com.)
About tekVizion PVS, Inc.
tekVizion (www.tekvizion.com)
designs and delivers converged solutions for service providers
that transparently integrate legacy telecom assets with next generation
products. tekVizion relies on seasoned telecom expertise, real-world
multi-vendor integration and test experience, and focused business
consulting services to deliver profitable and sustainable service
offerings for the communications service provider market. This
approach enables tekVizion to be an advocate for the service provider,
entering into strategic partnerships with leading service and
infrastructure providers that have made the company consistently
profitable. tekVizion is located in the Telecom Corridor®
in Richardson, Texas.
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tekVizion is a trademark, and Centerfield Solution
Center is a service mark of tekVizion PVS, Inc. Telecom Corridor
is a registered trademark of the Richardson Chamber of Commerce.
All other names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
